How to merge lists into a list of tuples

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What is the Pythonic approach to achieve the following     Original lists   list a    1  2  3  4  list b    5  6  7  8     List of tuples from  list a  and  list b    list c     1 5    2 6    3 7    4 8     Each member of list c is a tuple  whose first member is from list a and the second is from list b

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In python 3 0 zip returns a zip object  You can get a list out of it by calling list zip a  b

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You can use map lambda  a    2 3 4  b    5 6 7  c   map lambda x y  x y  a b    This will also work if there lengths of original lists do not match

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In Python 2    gt  gt  gt  list a    1  2  3  4   gt  gt  gt  list b    5  6  7  8   gt  gt  gt  zip list a  list b    1  5    2  6    3  7    4  8     In Python 3    gt  gt  gt  list a    1  2  3  4   gt  gt  gt  list b    5  6  7  8   gt  gt  gt  list zip list a  list b     1  5    2  6    3  7    4  8

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Youre looking for the builtin function zip

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I am not sure if this a pythonic way or not but this seems simple if both lists have the same number of elements     list a    1  2  3  4   list b    5  6  7  8   list c   list a i  list b i   for i in range 0 len list a

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I know this is an old question and was already answered  but for some reason  I still wanna post this alternative solution  I know it s easy to just find out which built-in function does the  magic  you need  but it doesn t hurt to know you can do it by yourself        gt  gt  gt  list 1     Ace    King    gt  gt  gt  list 2     Spades    Clubs    Diamonds    gt  gt  gt  deck       gt  gt  gt  for i in range max  len list 1  len list 2              while True              try                  card    list 1 i  list 2 i               except IndexError                  if len list 1  gt len list 2                       list 2 append                         card    list 1 i  list 2 i                   elif len list 1  lt len list 2                       list 1 append                         card    list 1 i   list 2 i                   continue             deck append card              break  gt  gt  gt   gt  gt  gt   and the result should be   gt  gt  gt  print deck  gt  gt  gt     Ace    Spades      King    Clubs          Diamonds

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The output which you showed in problem statement is not the tuple but list  list c     1 5    2 6    3 7    4 8     check for   type list c    considering you want the result as tuple out of list a and list b  do  tuple zip list a list b

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One alternative without using zip   list c     p1  p2  for idx1  p1 in enumerate list a  for idx2  p2 in enumerate list b  if idx1  idx2    In case one wants to get not only tuples 1st with 1st  2nd with 2nd    but all possible combinations of the 2 lists  that would be done with   list d     p1  p2  for p1 in list a for p2 in list b

[python] How to merge lists into a list of tuples?

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